Reconstruction's Ragged Edge (eBook)

The Politics of Postwar Life in the Southern Mountains

Steven E. Nash (Autor)

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2016
288 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2625-3 (ISBN)

Infos

In this illuminating study, Steven E. Nash chronicles the history of Reconstruction as it unfolded in the mountains of western North Carolina. Nash presents a complex story of the region's grappling with the war's aftermath, examining the persistent wartime loyalties that informed bitter power struggles between factions of white mountaineers determined to rule. For a brief period, an influx of federal governmental power enabled white anti-Confederates to ally with former slaves in order to lift the Republican Party to power locally and in the state as a whole. Republican success led to a violent response from a transformed class of elites, however, who claimed legitimacy from the antebellum period while pushing for greater integration into the market-oriented New South.Focusing on a region that is still underrepresented in the Reconstruction historiography, Nash illuminates the diversity and complexity of Appalachian political and economic machinations, while bringing to light the broad and complicated issues the era posed to the South and the nation as a whole.

Autor

Steven E. Nash is associate professor of history at East Tennessee State University.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.1.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Reihe/Serie: Civil War America
• Zusatzinfo: 3 maps, 3 tables, notes, bibl., index
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 160 x 160 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: African Americans in Southern Appalachia • Asheville • Emancipation in Southern Appalachia • Expansion of American State after the Civil War • Expansion of the market economy after the Civil War • Freedmen’s Bureau and Reconstruction in Southern Appalachia • Freedmen’s Bureau and Reconstruction in Southern Appalachia • Internal improvements in 19th century North Carolina • Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina • Labor in the post-Civil War mountain South • New South in Southern Appalachia • Political Violence in Post-Civil War North Carolina • Post-Civil War Loyalties • Reconstruction in western North Carolina • Southern Mountain Republicans • Tobacco cultivation in the mountain South • Western North Carolina Railroad
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2625-X / 146962625X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2625-3 / 9781469626253